Productive

RATING:

4.6

(84)

About Productive

Productive is an all encompassing agency management platform. It is an ideal fit for software development, marketing and design agencies or consultancies that are looking for a "single source of truth" tool. It includes sales pipeline management, resource planning / scheduling, time tracking, project management, budgeting, invoicing and profitability reporting. It also comes with a free client portal. One of Productive's biggest benefits is its strong reporting that is focused on profitability. It tracks not only rates and revenues, but also employee salaries and company overheads, providing users with a clear understanding of their agency's financial health. Its forecasting features also enable users to predict future budget spend and profit margins. Pro...

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Productive Pricing

Free trial available.

Starting price: 

$9.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

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Productive Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Productive

1 - 5 of 84 Reviews

User Profile

Zen

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Productive is integral to our success

Exceptional.

PROS

The features are designed for an agency so we use most of them, all day, every day. What we really like is: 1. The user interface is superb - intuitive and fast to use. The best we have seen. 2. Help files and customer services is excellent. There hasn't been a question without a really satisfactory answer. There isn't another system we use that is anywhere near as easy to use as Productive is. Remote working puts more pressure on the system and it has supported the team now spread out over thousands of miles.

CONS

Not much - would like slightly more customisable templates to allow us to add more text and graphics to them.

Reasons for switching to Productive

It seemed like it was built for small agencies, which we are.

User Profile

Robert

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2019

Gave me a running start

I use Productive for my day-to-day operations and was able to do an integration with Trello using their API. This makes my invoicing a breeze and allows me to give time reports to my customers. There is a ton of other features (sales pipeline, scheduling, financial reports) I am not using, but just for the small part I am using, it is a big time saver.

PROS

Productive has: - comprehensive feature set - ease of use - a tutorial to get you familiar with the different modules of the product - a decent price - customers can access the platform (when you grant them access) - an API to allow integrations with other components - responsive support (some bugs get fixed really fast)

CONS

- some structure elements may not be an exact match to your business (like with any product) - support is only during business hours, being a solo entrepreneur, problems don't always happen between 9-5 Monday-Friday - support could benefit from a ticketing system instead of a chat-based system - the task component have few features when compared with Trello. Strange for a company that brands itself as "more powerful than Trello and simpler to use than Jira" (https://www.productive.io/tour/project-management/).

Reason for choosing Productive

- Better feature set - Better pricing - Trial available

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2024

Productive reveiw

It could be more connected and adapted to the needs of a particular job

PROS

Scheduling, Task management and Time management, Customers help

CONS

It is sometimes slow, after update a lot of things are not working, some updates make my job harder

Reasons for switching to Productive

Changed company that I work for and adapted the new one

Franka

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2024

A great tool for multiple purposes

I really like Productive and would be happy if we continue using it.

PROS

I like how Productive has a lot of features and is still pretty simple to use. The logic behind everything works great almost always, and for me it became a tool that I use daily without much thought. I see great value in that. I also appreciate the documentation and the whole team behind.

CONS

Tasks are maybe still a bit sloppy, but maybe it's just because of the way we use it in the company. I'm not really sure.

Mark

Internet, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2022

Very all-round and effective projectmanagement app

I'm very happy with Productive and all its features, also the contact with the support is always very engaging!

PROS

Productive shines in its range of features that just click with our wishes in managing projects. It keeps track of alle important aspects of tasks, budgeting, time, invoicing and reports we need to do our best job for our customers.

CONS

Productive could become better when it has a translation in Dutch, for our customers who are not as tech savvy as we are. The way projects can be invoiced could get some improvements, also bulk editing budgets.

Reasons for switching to Productive

Flow did not meet our needs in terms of full project management with the big amounts of clients we have as a digital agency.